Daily Monitor
Friday April 23 2021
A family that was displaced off Lusanja land in October 2018 sets up a temporal shelter. PHOTO /Abubaker Lubowa
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President Museveni has promised to dismantle “the old and barbaric land laws” that for long have hard-pressed Ugandans through rampant illegal evictions.
Without disclosing the specifics of the planned constitutional amendments to the Land Act, the President, with the support of NRM MPs-elect, undertook to implement the Justice Catherine Bamugemereire report on land matters in order to cure both current and historical land injustices in the country. He cited the Mailo Land tenure that the British colonialists handed to Buganda chiefs and their collaborators.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday April 07 2021
Children play at a section of the Lubenge wetland in Nakasongola District. Some investors have taken part of the wetland. PHOTO/ FILE
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Authorities claim the delay has put livelihoods of more than 20,000 farmers who derive their livelihood from the water catchment area at risk.
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The authorities in Nakasongola District have accused government of delaying to resurvey Lubenge transborder wetland, part of which is being claimed by some investment companies.
In 2018, the district leaders instituted an ad hoc committee to investigate the alleged parcelling out of large chunks of land and degrading activity at the more than 10-square mile Lubenge wetland that the district shares with Luweero and Nakaseke.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 03 2021
Some of the affected residents of Makukulu Village at New Hope Community Nursery and Primary School after a meeting on June 5,2019. PHOTO/ PAUL SSEKANDI.
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Government wants the land to serve as a pre-export quarantine ground, where animals can be vaccinated before they are exported.
Challenges: Mr George Kabende, whom government entrusted as a caretaker of the land, said he has been fighting squatters for more than 20 years.
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has rekindled its earlier plan to repossess 242.541 acres of land at Makukulu Village in Kaliro Sub-county, Lyatonde District, which is currently occupied by more than 1,000 squatters.
Daily Monitor
Tuesday February 02 2021
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The 55-year-old Anglican priest, who has previously served as a Member of Parliament, last week won the district chairperson seat on NUP ticket.
He said his immediate task is to continue the work left behind by his predecessor.
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The newly elected Mukono District chairperson, Rev Peter Bakaluba Mukasa, has promised to revive the area’s lost glory by improving service delivery.
The 55-year-old Anglican priest, who has previously served as a Member of Parliament, last week won the district chairperson seat on the National Unity Platform (NUP) ticket.
Rev Bakaluba beat two National Resistance Movement (NRM) cadres; Hajj Haruna Semakula and the incumbent Andrew Ssenyonga.
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